Another day in New York, another violent crime against an innocent.
On Tuesday, Ray Alvarez, the 90-year-old owner of Ray’s Candy Store in the East Village, was brutally beaten by thugs leaving him with a black and swollen eye and a cut on his face. Despite the attack, Alvarez was back at work the next morning.
Born in Iran, Alvarez come to the US in 1964 to pursue the American Dream, opening Ray’s in 1974. The store is so well known, it has its own Wikipedia page.
But Ray Alvarez — who was left with a black eye and a nasty cut on his face from the cowardly assault on Tuesday –said it never would’ve happened if there were more cops patrolling the neighborhood, which other locals agreed has become increasingly unsafe
“There is a lot of crime because there is not enough police,” Alvarez told The Post Thursday. “We used to have police on foot patrol, walking up and down. No more.”
The East Village stalwart was randomly attacked around 3 a.m. Tuesday by a stranger who asked him if he wanted to buy a package he was carrying, cops said.
